%0 Journal Article
%T Psychosocial risks within prison service
%A Giuseppe Ferrari
%J Journal of Health and Social Sciences
%P 23-28
%@ 2499-5886
%D 3
%R 10.19204/2016/psyh4
%X We aimed to identify the psychosocial risks that penitentiary police officers face. To do so, we
developed the police stress risk questionnaire¨Cprison (PSrQ¨Cp), a questionnaire for psychosocial
risk assessment at workplace, consisting of 22 items that investigated five macro dimensions: isolation,
social image, firearms license, variety of work and roles/responsibilities. We tested this tool
on a sample of 1,346 subjects, and testing is on-going. From the data obtained, we confirmed the
hypothesis of psychophysical and negative social image relative to the isolation experienced by
penitentiary police officers.
%K "Psychosocial factors"
%K "police officers"
%K "prisons"
%K "social environment"
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